From the only reliable source of Catholic news on the net, Eye of the Tiber:
Just days after the U.N. Elected Saudi Arabia to its Women’s Rights Commission, the Vatican announced this week that Pope Francis has elected Hugh Hefner to its Commission to Study Priestly Celibacy.
“Electing Hugh Hefner to study whether or not members of the clergy should be able to get married is outrageous,” said Dunkan Weber, executive director of Vatican Watch. “It’s insane and morally reprehensible.”
But others like Father Richard Moya applauded the choice, telling EOTT that it was a strong move.
“I believe it is a great decision. Who better than Mr. Hefner to assist in studying whether the Church’s discrimination against priests is gross and systematic in law and in practice? Mr. Hefner knows what makes people happy, and the Church clearly does not, as seen in its declining vocations. Every priest must have no bride but the Church who makes all critical decisions on his behalf, controlling his life from ordination until death. The Church bans priests from getting married, having sex, and smiling. It is about time they reached out to more open minded specialists in the field of happiness.”
The “kingpin of unbridled joy” now becomes one of 45 members of the commission that will play an instrumental role in “promoting priests’ rights, documenting the reality of priests’ lives throughout the world, and shaping universal standards on clergy equality and the empowerment of religious.”
Go here to read the comments. At this point in this pontificate would anyone be that surprised if this were a real story? Would Saint Blog’s lack for commenters explaining how this was perfectly Catholic and those objecting were pharisees without mercy?
Oh great! Now will we probably be subjected to one of those progressive “bunny ears” Masses?
Well, it would certainly liven up the concept of liturgical dance.
The words, “Voodoo Theology” come to (my alleged) mind. The word “fake” is over-used.
Caligula will be introduced as an overlooked canidate for sainthood via the studious works of Hef. His center of influence is opening wide the doors of St. Peter’s Basilica to heroic hedonism never before imagined.
Chastity and Caligula….a study in “unity in difference.”. Thanks pf.
I snickered at that because Playboy magazine is losing readers faster than the Church is losing priests. Playboy mansions have been closing in cities across America, too.
Both institutions led by geriatrics with delusions of grandeur and a penchant for writing incomprehensible “philosophy”.
Maybe he’s trying to save his soul.